Kat Russell

Kat Russell is a graduating senior, studying journalism at California State University, Northridge. She is currently working as the multimedia director for the Daily Sundial, the award winning campus newspaper. In January 2012, Kat won a Hearst Journalism Award, for her multimedia feature piece on a pantomime performer in Istanbul. She has also interned with KPCC, in Pasadena, and Cornucopia Magazine in Istanbul, Turkey. Kat has traveled and photographed all over the world.

Who knew that an email could change my life? I certainly wasn’t expecting that when I opened the mass email sent out by my adviser. But there it was: The Istanbul Project. If the “powers that be” saw fit, I was to study international reporting and foreign correspondence in Istanbul for four weeks with ieiMedia […] more »